Post by happyhaddock on Sept 13, 2008 10:36:29 GMT -5
True Haddock!
There was no word for homosexuality, but it was described in passages like this..
www.religioustolerance.org/hom_bibh3.htm QUOTE:
"And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
I'm confident that Christ would have stopped the stoning of a homosexual as he stopped the stoning of an adulteress! The economic situation had improved from the time of Moses and there was no longer this nightmarish scenario of choosing who lives and who dies during famines!
That is an English 'version' of the text, Leviticus 18:22
This is a passage from the Mosaic Code that is often used to condemn homosexual behavior in general.
In transliterated Hebrew, the verse is written: "V’et zachar lo tishkav mishk’vey eeshah toeyvah hee."
The first part of this verse is literally translated as "And with a male you shall not lay lyings of a woman."
Not a sin, just an odd behavior (toeyvah) needing ritual cleansing. You'll also note there is no mention of women - there is nothing in the bible about lesbians. And no one understands that passage anyway.
And see Luke 7:1-10; the "centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly" is impliedly his homosexual partner (catamite). So if Jesus would cure him . . . .
As for all the people who have to be stoned according to Leviticus, unless every stitch you wear every day is all linen, or all wool, you get stoned. Any mixing at all is a death penalty offence under Leviticus. That would wipe out everyone in every super church.
See Homosexuality & Christianity for a good rundown on this.